Re: how to recover unsaved document after crash

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It's a rare bird indeed that automatically saves a *newly created* document
to disk *before* the user gives the first call... And how would it know what
to call it or where to put it?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 8/17/06 2:50 PM, in article
1155840600.562851.311820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"keyvanantonioheydari@xxxxxxxxx" <keyvanantonioheydari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Beth, Thanks for your response. But the harsh truth is that I
"never" saved the document before the crash. However, figuring that an
accidental severing in the program's operations would "save" the last
version before the (as if power had gone, let's say) cut, as in some PC
programs, I thought there might be some cache inside the machine which
would give me some hope of recovering the text.
Thanks,

Beth Rosengard wrote:
It depends on when you'd last saved and also which of Word's Preferences you
had set (and how).

If you *never* saved the document (just opened a new doc window and started
typing without ever saving and giving the doc a title), then you're out of
luck.

If you did save the document, then what you'll be able to recover depends on
how your preferences were set and when you last hit Save.

If your Save preferences were set at the default, then you had AutoRecover
set to save every 10 minutes. That means Word should have saved the
document intact with the exception of the last ten minutes worth of typing
(unless you manually hit Save during those ten minutes, which would save
even more).

There are other Save options but the fact you asked the question implies
that your preferences were at the default values.

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Beth Rosengard
MacOffice MVP

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On 8/17/06 7:56 AM, in article
1155826597.566340.109900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"keyvanantonioheydari@xxxxxxxxx" <keyvanantonioheydari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was working on a document, and the Imac G5 Word program froze. Is
there any way I can get the text back once I restart the computer? The
same way PCs have some sort of autosave and a PC retains the last
version of a file if the power goes. The text was very important to me.
Any sort of solution is welcome.
Thanks,



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